Will a lava lamp survive on Jupiter? It is a question we have we have all asked ourselves at one point in our lives. Thanks to a little ingenuity, a 50 kilo spinning centrifuge, and a Nexus One smartphone, one of the great mysteries of life has been solved.

The experiment was conducted by Neil Fraser, who built the centrifuge out of Meccano. Applying a counter weight to one side of the centrifuge, the Laval Lamp and Nexus One were then placed on the other. The Nexus One used a G-Force app to measure the amount of G-Force the centrifuge was under once started.



Fraser's centrifuge was able to reach 3-G's of force, although the Nexus One only displayed 2.0G's due to a bug. You can see the centrifuge in action in the video above. It is quite impressive, considering it was made from tinker toys.

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